Ph.D. English, MA English, BA English Morgan State University; BA in English, Communication, and Social Sciences, University of the West Indies; Diploma in Teaching, English and Library Studies, Mico University College

Area of Specializaton: Caribbean Literature 

Caribbean Literature and Culture; Black Atlantic Studies, Black Cultural Production, Ethnic Literature and Culture; Multicultural Literature; African Diasporic Literature; Postcolonial Literature and Theory; and Cultural Studies

Benjamin Quarles Institute; Advisory Committee for Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; Advisory Committee for International Studies; Latinx and Caribbean Studies Advisory Committee; Chair, Honors Committee; Chair, Adjudication Committee; Chair, Curriculum Committee, Sigma Tau Delta (Faculty Representative)

“Critical Race Theory: Claude McKay’s “If We Must Die” and Other Poems of
Resistance as a Manifesto for Black Lives Matter.” International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Studies, vol 3, no. 11, 2022.

“Diversifying the Colonized Mind in the Warmth of an HBCU.” Global Footprints in Higher
Education: Cross-Cultural Experiences of Students and Faculty at Morgan State University
(STAR Scholars Titles), edited by Krishna Bista and Adele Newson-Horst, STAR Scholars, 2022, pp. 136-139.

“Digital Cameras in Postcolonial Caribbean Literature.” Environmental Postcolonialism: A Literary Response, edited by Shubhanku Kochar and M. Anjun Khan, Lexington, 2021, pp. 155-169.

“Haunting Past, Daunting Future: Womanist Reading of Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy.”
Transnational American Spaces, edited by Tina Powell and Patty Sagasti Suppes, Vernon, 2022, pp. 21-38.

Foreword. Pathology of a Pandemic: A Collection of Poems, by Canute Lawrence, Friesen, 2021, pp. xix-xxi.

“De-canonizing the Caribbean Literary Cannon: Postcolonial Readings of Derek Walcott and V. S. Naipaul.” AGILE Literary Journal, July 2019,

“Carnival and Southern Games: National Tradition and Personal Identity in Michael
Anthony’s The Games Were Coming.” Sankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young
Adult Literature, vol. 11, 2012, pp. 65-77.

“Reading ‘Black’ Poverty in Postcolonial Caribbean Young Adult Fiction: Michael
Anthony’s The Year in San Fernando and Cyril Everard Palmer’s The Cloud with the Silver
Lining.” African and African America Children’s and Adolescent Literature in the Classroom: A Critical Guide, edited by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw and Mary Napoli, Peter Lang, 2011, pp. 173-
190.

Khorana, Meena, and Denise Jarrett. “One Hen: Sensitizing Children to Social Issues.” Sankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature, vol. 8, 2009, pp. 78-83.